About Visit Germany.com and tourist info
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Germany.travel
German National Tourist Board / GNTB
Deutsche Zentrale für Tourismus (DZT)
60325 Frankfurt
Germany
+49 69 974540
mail: info "at" germany.travel
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Germany has a 1,300 km coastline along the North Sea, and 2.000 km along the Baltice Sea
This is not direct line mesurements, but a coastline including silands an inlets
55 Unesco World Heritage sites
Top 10
Tourist Attractions of Germany
1) Neuschwanstein Castle build by King Louis 2 of Bavaria - near Fuessen
2) Brandenburger Tor / Brandenburg Gate
Berlin
3) Museum Island
Berlin
- 01Cologne Cathedral / Kölner Dom - Cologne
- 02Bundestag - Berlin
- 03Heidelberg Castle - Heidelberg
- 04Koenigsalle - Duesseldorf
- 05Rhine Valley between Bad Godesberg and Rüdesheim
- 06Holstein Gate - Luebeck
- 07Mosel Valley - between Trier and Koblenz
History of the website and Tourism Marketing in Germany
Visit Germany.com
Domain registration date: 15-08-1997
The domain was registered during the early years of the internet, eventually before the German Tourist Board had the idea to make a website.
Visit Germany.com is on the list of the first visit domains
Visit Germany.de
Domain registration date: before 2003
Germany.travel
Domain registration date: 13-01-2006
deutschland-tourismus.de: 2000 no longer used
Timeline
1948
German National Tourist Board was founded 25-05-1948
The German name is
Deutsche Zentrale für Tourismus (DZT).
Initially called
"Deutsche Zentrale für Fremdenverkehr"
The organisation was founded before the foundation of
Bundesrepublik Deutschland
20-09-1949.
Ludwig Erhard (1897 - 1977), later Minister of Economy and Chancelor of Germany participated in the foundation of DZT.
The organisation promotes
Germany as a travel destination.
The organisation is linked to a Government division, the Ministry for Economy and Klimate Protection (BMWK)
The current president of DTZ is Petra Hedorfer.
The organisation has many members like DB.de (Deutsche Bahn) or LH.com (Lufthansa Airline),
Hotel Corporations
Airports or Trade Fair Organisers.
Other members are national Tourist Boards like Visit Berlin.com or Visit NRW.com
1997 The organisation missed to register the domain
VisitGermany.com during the early years of the internet before 15-08-1997 when it was still available.
They also missed to aquire it when domains were less valuable and before "visit" turned out to become a global trend.
2000 web presence started with the domain deutschland-tourismus.de
The domain is no longer in active use.
2005 Launch of the extension .travel with the idea to create an alternative to .com
2006 registration of
Germany.travel
13-01-2006
hundreds of other new sTLD followed,
.tourism .reise .voyage .holiday
.vacations .hotel .traveller,
.coop, .shop,
.gmbh, .haus, .hoteles and many many others.
Result that al these new TLD created confustion, a lot of competition among themselves and .com remains the one and only.
and ccTLDs like .de are know in and beyond their respective countries like Germany.
New niche gTLDs did not age well.
Sometimes trendy at the moment of their launch and recommended by the one or the other ad agency most new gTLDs, that now exist in over 1.200 versions never became mainstream.
There are 160 milion acitve .com,
18 million active .de but there are only 18.000 active .travel domains, less than 0.01% of all active websites.
Most Businesses and Organisations that once registered / used a .travel domain now redirects it to .com example Booking.travel
Lufthansa.travel all redirect to .com
National Tourist boards that were able to get "Visit+country" at a later time now redirect it, as they realised niche Tlds confuse internet users.
Morocco.travel switched to Visit Morocco.com in 2009
Greece.travel to Visit Greece.gr in 2021
Others will be switching sooner or later.
Many other .travel domains, that imply very hi renewal charges were simply not renewed and lapsed.
Many users don't understand “.travel” is a TLD and they think the URL is an error.
Tourists confuse Germany.travel with Germany.com
As a result for a long time they got a lovely cat that does not want to be disturbed.
It's not "Choupette" the cat of the German designer
Karl Lagerfeld but the cat of someone that was really early on the web, probably a German American living somewhere near Silicon Valley, California.
He registered the domain 20-05-1994
Germany.com is a "pure geo domain" registered in the very early years of the internet.
When internet became popular around 2000 these domains were so expensive to aquire and so difficult to get that "Visit Geo Domains" have been an alternative solution for Tourism marketing.
While a few pure geo domains like Berlin.com are smaller website, most are inactif or listed for sale.
Tegernsee.com is one of the rare cases in Germany of a pure Geo domain in professional use.
.travel has seen a strong decline with more and more travel sites around the world switching to .com or to ccTld like .de
While 215.000 .travel domains were registered
10 years ago only 10 to 15% are still used today.
While .dot domains can reach multi million dallar amounts in the secondary market, there are pratically no recorded sales for .travel domains.
Using a decling TLD the German Tourist Board might not make the best marketing investment in the promotion the country.
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Germany has borders with 9 countries
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